Insurance may be best for phones

10:06 PM,
Sep. 30, 2012

Written by

Michelle Singletary
The Washington Post

I've long felt that too many people have become too attached to their smartphones.

But not only do people have an unhealthy and often annoying attachment to these devices, they are spending billions (yes billions with a "b") to repair broken phones so they can continue their addictions to talking, tweeting, texting, downloading stuff from the Internet and playing games.

Consumers have spent $5.9 billion to repair, replace or pay insurance deductibles for damaged iPhones since they went on sale in 2007, according to SquareTrade, a leading consumer electronics protection plan provider. ...